Weekend Agenda June 26-28

Persnickety punk-rock litmus testers will have their hands—and ears—full at Friday's Rise Against and Rancid show at the Myth. Rainbow-waving revelers can get a Pride fix before the official festival starts at Bryant-Lake Bowl's Uptown Pride Block Party. A pair of roots-rocking New Orleans bands head upriver for Minneapolis gigs: Cowboy Mouth plays the Cabooze, while Bunker's hosts The Radiators. And it's closing weekend for the heady hair-metal homage Power Balladz.

Here's a clip of Rancid attesting to their own punk cred:

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Saturday finds this year's Pride Festival in full bloom in Loring Park. Back-porch banjo lovers can find a seat at the Minnesota Zoo's Avett Brothers show. For fans of blurred comic-book reality, Who Framed Roger Rabbit gets a late-night screening at the Uptown, while comedy icon Bill Cosby gets back to stand-up basics at Orchestra Hall. Sir Richard Bishop leads an evening of tweaky punk experiments at the Entry.

Here's the video for the Avett Brothers' "Murder In The City":

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Sunday is rife with last chances as the Twin Cities Improv Festival winds down at Brave New Workshop and Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures closes at the Guthrie. The Uptown Bar hosts Kansas indie stalwarts The Appleseed Cast. The Cedar Cultural Center primes the pump for this year's Deep Blues Festival with a free film program.

Here's a hometown video segment on The Appleseed Cast:

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